Freshly Printed - Oxford Literarium

 

Look how beautiful this cover is! I can't get over how gorgeous the Radcliffe Camera is, which is why I decided to place it front and center on the cover of my new book - Oxford Literarium: Oxford Writers in Time and Place. Available now on Amazon.

The Radcliffe Camera is part of the Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford. It is one of the most beautiful spaces in which to read, work, and write. It houses the History Faculty Library. It plays an important role in the lives of the writers I visit with through the book for they would have used the Bodleian Library in different ways along with their college library, and it played a key role in my own research there at the Bodleian. I spent probably 40-50% of my library time there at the Radcliffe Camera. I'd research books to find, treasure hunt them (usually held down underground in the Gladstone Link stacks), then I'd bring them up to the upper Rad Cam to read. The other ~50% of my library time was mostly split in the Old Bodleian, the Duke Humfrey's Library, and the Weston Library Manuscripts Reading Room.

If you are interested in history, authors (like C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Gerard Manley Hopkins, T.S. Eliot, Dorothy L. Sayers), Oxford, libraries, learning, poetry, connecting ideas across time, then you'll find this book interesting. As I researched connections these authors had I found more, and it led me to more trails to follow in a purely delightful path of discovery. I take you along the journey through this book, and visit with these authors in Oxford specifically to see how it impacted them. This book was a joy to research and write. I hope you'll find it interesting. 

I hope you will pick up a copy today! 

Oxford Literarium - Book Release!

 

Happy 2026! The best way to start a new year - With a new book!

I am thrilled to announce that my newest book is now available - published on Amazon.

Oxford Literarium: Oxford Writers in Time and Place

This book is a labor of love and research. Filled with authors who lived, taught, wrote, thought, and experienced Oxford in different ways, such as:

C.S. Lewis
J.R.R. Tolkien
Dorothy L. Sayers
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Lewis Carroll
Evelyn Waugh
Robert Burton
And More!

I had the immense privilege to live in Oxford for most of March 2025 where I spent everyday in the Bodleian Libraries reading books and viewing manuscripts and letters from these amazing authors. It was a great dream of mine to research in the Bodleian Libraries. I got to live across the street from the Radcliffe Camera (part of the Bodleian) where I walked into the quadrangle every morning with my coffee, stepped inside the library to warm up and treasure hunt the books to read that day. 

You will journey with me on my travels as I experience the Bodleian during my research and the places associated or visited by these authors (colleges, pubs, libraries, gardens). I explore how these authors are connected in surprising ways across space and time. In my research, finding those connections in my reading was such a joy. To see how some authors knew each other, some referenced older authors, led a similar youth journey, or were inspired by each other's writings.

It is a bit frightening to share one's writings with the world, but I believe when we are given an ounce of a talent and the passion to put something that promotes good, it is meant to be shared. The power comes through the sharing and the talking with others about it or about some concept explored through it. I hope you will check it out, and if you have any interest in any of these authors you'll pick it up out of curiosity. You might learn something and share in an appreciation of the place Oxford and its many amazing writers.

You can check it out and purchase a copy on AMAZON

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